Chain clothesline



(No Model.) I

H. E. PERGIVAL. GHAIN CLOTHES LINE.

No. 507,161. PaQtentdOct. 2 4, 1393.

UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT E. PERCIVAL, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR TO EDMUND CONVERSE, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHAIN CLOTH ESLINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,161, dated October 24, 1893.

Application filed February 20, 1890. Serial No. 341.247. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT E. PERCIVAL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oklahoma city, Oklahoma Territory, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chain Clotheslines, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings, which form a part of this specification and which represent a portion of a chain clothesline embodying my invention.

Figure 1 represents a portion of the line and illustrates the method of attaching clothing thereto. Fig. 2 represents one of the links of the chain of which the line is composed. Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken on like 00, 00, Fig. 2.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the different figures.

Myinvention relates to that class of clothes lines which are composed of a series of links, interlinked together forming a chain and which are provided with longitudinal elastic holding jaws by which the clothing is sustained upon the line.

Clothes lines composed of a chain having links I am aware are old, and I am also aware that lines composed of such links have been in use having longitudinal elastic holding jaws. Such I do not therefore claim broadly.

My clothesline is composed of a series of links and as each link is substantially the same as the other links I have shown one of the links forming the chain in an enlarged view in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The link is formed of an elastic wire which is bent into the circular eyes B, B, the ends of the wire being carried over against the central section of the wire, and brought close to and parallel with it. The two wires lying parallel and close together are twisted for a short distance at C, D, securely uniting the two wires together. The free ends of the wire are carried back to the twisted sections 0, D, and attached to the body of the link. The elastic jaw is thereby formed of two wires 0, c,one of which is preferably placed upon one side of the main wireb and the otherupon theoppositesideof themain wire b, causing the elastic strength of the jaw a to be increased and as each of the wires 0, 0, extends along by the side of and upon opposite 5o sides of the main wire the bite upon the clothing is increased. A space is left between the free ends of the elastic jaws so formed, to allow the piece of clothing to be entered. The straight wire forming the body of the link is in alignment with the centers of the eyes B, B, and is therefore in line with the strain ex erted upon the clothes line by the load of clothing sustained thereon, leaving the elastic jaws free from strain, so they can be read ily separated from'the wires 1), in order to admit the clothing. Bent in the manner described a link is formed provided with the eyes B, B, at the ends of the link, and when the second is formed the wire of which it is composed is passed through one of the eyes B, B, and the next succeeding link is formed in the same manner, the links being thereby linked together forming a chain.

What I claim as my invention, and desire 0 to secure by Letters Patent, is

Ina chain clothes line, the link as described, comprising a main wire provided with eyes at its ends and double wired elastic jaw or, attached at one end to said main wire and formed of the parallel wires 0, c, lying upon opposite sides of said main wire, whereby the bite upon the clothing is increased, substantially as described.

Dated at Oklahoma city, Oklahoma Terri- Dry, this 5th day of February, 1890.

HERBERT E. PERCIVAL.

Witnesses:

H. H. HOWARD, D. HOLLINGSWORTH. 

